Greater Food Security for women farmers in India

Your continued support is making a difference

We are thrilled to report that we have raised over $30,000 to help improve the farming livelihoods of the women farmers. 400 women are now growing healthy crops using their climate-smart greenhouses! We are aiming to raise $50,000 before the year-end and we need your support. Reaching this goal will help another 500 poor women farmers.

The Advantages of Climate Smart Greenhouses

Since our last report, our partner Kheyti has also organised local agronomist support for the women. This provides the women with further continued education and training. The women now manage their crops with increasing knowledge and confidence. This makes them less dependent on others.

The latest harvests for the women have produced twice as many tomatoes and cucumbers than when they have grown these crops outside their climate-smart greenhouses. This has provided much needed additional income for the women with which to feed their families.

Scaling our efforts to reach more women farmers

With the success of our efforts to date, our partner, Kheyti will begin planning to help another 2000 farmers during the next year across many other villages in India. Your contributions have been instrumental in helping us get there. You have made lasting differences to the lives of these women farmers and their families. Please continue supporting them.

The difference you are making

We are delighted to report that your generous contributions have made a big difference to the lives of these women farmers. We have raised almost $28,000 to date. We need your continued support to reach our goal of $50,000 before the end of 2021.

Resilience during the COVID-19 second wave

The latest wave of the pandemic has resulted in increased challenges for the women, including limited access to and from their villages. Lockdown restrictions have resulted in a lack of transport facilities, unavailability of seeds, fertilisers and pesticides, and inaccessible markets.

Our partners, Kheyti have trained the women farmers to communicate their problems via WhatsApp. Using their network, Kheyti then connects them to appropriate solution providers  on a timely and effective basis. For example, Yalaya was unable to buy seeds due to inaccessible markets, and was then introduced to a local supplier.

The positive outcome of adopting innovative solutions during such adversity is that these women continue to farm using their climate-smart greenhouses with confidence. They also benefit from having instant access to information about local weather conditions, market prices for their crops and the support of a responsive and resilient community.

Your generosity is improving the lives of many more women farmers

Together with our partners, Kheyti, we are training another 100 women farmers to start using their climate-smart greenhouses. Every $ will directly benefit these women and sustain their farming. You are a very big part of the progress and positive change to the livelihoods that these women are making.

Click here to see how our partners are supporting the farmers during these diffcult times.